Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- Tía Margarita Johnson's house in Hollywood -- Cousin Consuelo, on piano -- Taking my cousin's photo at the Statue of Liberty -- Of consequence, inconsequently -- The island within -- Poem between Havana and Varadero -- Habla Cuba speaking -- 5:00 AM in Cuba -- Practice problem -- El Florida room -- Sitting on my mother's porch in Westchester, Florida -- Playing house with Pepín -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- Papá at the kitchen table -- My father, my hands -- Love as if love -- Maybe -- Cheers to Hyakutake -- Thicker than country -- Killing Mark -- Love poem according to quantum theory -- Birthday portrait -- Mamá with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with Mamá in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what Tía Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for Tía Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished.